911 “Cross” Still in Ye Olde Hot Seat |:| Will It End Up In Hot Seat Memorial?
Taking that symbol of cathartic hope and making it a symbol of the event itself has got a new cheerleader this week: Rep. Michael Grimm (R-SI) said he’s pushing for […]
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Aghoris Like Skulls |:| Broome Street Temple Celebrates Ten Years of Yogic Splendor |:| Svoboda Speaks Tonight!
About ten years ago I was living in Boulder, CO and reading a lot of spiritual books. Now, it’d be great if I could say spiritual “texts,” but really we […]
No Sexy Spirituality Anymore? |:| Bummer |:| Retreat Centers Becoming Serious
“Tantra is radical positive insanity; the commitment, based on the experience of emptiness, to disappear without a trace into every moment. —Ngakpa Chogyam Rinpoche, Wearing the Body of Visions Is […]
Let’s Kill Gravity |:| Why Do People Hate Life?
I’ve had this insane Verso Shock Trampoline Technology* ad torn from the illustrious in-flight SkyMall magazine folded in my pocket for months, because I just couldn’t get enough of its […]
My Mom Talks About the Hurricane |:| Poop Tonight So You Don’t Have to Tomorrow
Was talking to my mom on the phone about the hurricane and realized I needed to get some of it down, as those of you who read my last “interview” […]
UPDATE: Peter L. Wilson Has Bounced |:| True Vanishing Art
UPDATE: Wilson has been removed from the Vanishing Art event bio list mid-festival. Big salaams and thanks to Mustafa Al-Layla for the tip. It appears Wilson’s name has been removed form the official bios of the festival, suggesting once again that sickness is not the cause of his departure. -end […]
Honoring The Earth Element |:| “May the Gnomes be Pleased”
____________________ Vanishing Art, Earth Element, The Abode of The Message, Orchard of the Prophets, August 26, 2011
Sufis Love Eating |:| Exorcism? |:| [Vanishing Art Report]
For as many years as I’ve been coming up to The Abode of the Message (say, about six), there has always been bread, butter, and jelly left out on the table in the eating hall. At any hour of the night I have felt safe knowing that if I had […]
Reporting From the Vanishing Art Festival |:| Experimental Occult Sufi Practices Abound!
Over the next few days I will be reporting from here… The Abode of the Message, covering this week’s Vanishing Art Festival featuring Peter Lamborn Wilson… Carolee Schneemann… and many more…. What the hell is Vanishing Art, you ask? Check out this communique from Wilson on the first Vanishing Art […]
My Santisima Trinidad |:| In Love and Curiosity
Lately, whenever I sit in front of my altar in The Place of Peace, I find myself irresistibly drawn to contemplating a small corroding image I picked up a while […]
This Thursday: 19th Century Bohemian Occult Subcultures in Britain |:| Golden Dawn, Polyamory, Mysticism
Phantasmaphile is putting together this: Bohemian Occult Subculture in Britain’s 1890s: How Artists, Actors, and Writers Made the Golden Dawn* An illustrated presentation by Dr. Christina Oakley Harrington of Treadwell’s, London’s legendary occult bookshop Date: Thursday, August 25th Time: 8pm Location: Observatory, Brooklyn Admission: $8 The Order of the Golden […]
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Carolee Schneemann, Pir Zia Inayat Khan |:| Festival in Upstate NY
This amazing event is happening in New Lebanon, NY this coming week and there are still a few spots left for people to sign up and come. Plus, I’ll be there, so…. Here’s the deal: Over the days of August 24-28, 2011, a unique kind of arts festival will take […]
NYC “Fortune Tellers” Charged With Fraud |:| $40 Million Amassed Over 20 Years
These sort of charges always make me feel uneasy.While this case seems pretty straight forward—at least in the instances where valuables were never returned to the customers—I can’t help but feel that fine line between working with a willing participant on matters “unseen” and taking an uninformed and coerced patron […]
New Occult Esoteric Fantastic Web Show
Remember television? That was awesome. Television was that thing that even when it was lame (commercials) it had the potential for being insane (Zoobilee Zoo). Well, television is over. But this new thing called the intranet is going to take off like undies at a poly-friendly post-gender anarchist adult play […]
Russian Space Church in Queens
Scouting New York has got some really nice photos of the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Whitestone, Queens, NY, otherwise known as “Space Church 2099, M’F’in Biotch!” I haven’t yet […]
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